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Very well, I will slay them and march to the capital!

Admiral!

Put down your swords!

Are you intent on becoming a traitor?

Did you say a traitor?

The Japanese killed your father and took your mother,

isn't that right?

Admiral...

Your sister hanged herself after being raped by an enemy soldier,

isn't that right?

Yes, Admiral!

Wu-song!

This man's two year old son starved to death next to his mother.

Do you know why?

Because they killed his mother by cutting off her chest!

Now do you understand? This is why we can't stop fighting!

If it is a crime to try and end these atrocities, if we are

traitors or trying to defeat the enemy, by god we will

become traitors!

We will march to battle without hesitation and we will accept

our punishment with pride when we return triumphant!

Admiral...!

Escort the emissary.

Yes, sir!

Hail the Admiral! Hail the Admiral!

You'll be under our care from now on.

How dare you! Do you know what you are doing?!

YU DO: CHOSUN NAVAL BASE

The two of you will proceed to Gon-yang once Wu-song is captured

and spread a rumor that the Supreme Commander Kwon Yu is coming.

Rally some civilians and clean up the city as well. Understood?

Yes, sir!

Chun Wu-song,

all is riding on this letter.

This is our last chance to wipe out the enemy.

I promise you we will exact revenge for you and your family.

I will sacrifice my life for the mission.

JUK-DO: MING NAVAL BASE

Chosun teas have a very deep aroma.

Admiral,

what brought you here? Please feel free to speak.

I have a request.

I will strike Konishi on the 18th of this month.

Without Yu Jung and the ground forces?

Are you proposing that you and I strike Wekyo alone?

I'm asking you to make them think that Chosun navy is

going to strike Wekyo on the 18th.

I know about your meetings with the Japanese.

Inform them that I am preparing a full-force attack on the 18th.

Divulge a classified information about a top secret operation?

All you have to do is meet them and chat as you have before.

Way I ask why?

I make this request because I trust you, Admiral.

CHANGSUN-DO: JAPANESE MAIN FORCE COMMANDER CENTER

What is it?

It's a secret memo from Yi Soon-shin to Kwon Yul.

What's the content?

He will launch a second attack on Wekyo Fort and seeks assistance

of the ground troops.

Yi Soon-shin is launching a second attack on Konishi?

This is our chance.

We can strike Yi from the rear and save my father-in-law.

Is that so?

They want to break one of us before we organize a pincer attack.

Then why was this boy going to Gon-yang?

Why by way of our camp of all roads?

Take him and find out! And send a scout to Gon-yang!

Are the contents of that memo accurate?

I, I do not know...

Why did you land on our zone?

I was swept off course by a storm.

Why were you headed to Gon-yang?

Commander Kwon Yul is coming to Gon-yang.

But you're just a crewman. Why were you assigned this task?

It's because I know the area well.

Do you wish to live?

Kill me! I've failed my mission, so I'm dead anyway!

Shimazu will be quicker to capture Yi Soon-shin than to save us.

Anyway, all we need to do is to withdraw in the meantime.

Go back empty handed and let Shimazu bring back Yi Soon-shin's head?

Not a chance!

We will capture Yi Soon-shin no matter what the cost!

Is that clear?

When Shimazu launches an attack, we will strike Yi from the rear.

But from where?

Once Shimazu makes his move from Sachun, Yi Soon-shin will...

Set up an ambush.

Where?

Pardon? Did you say Noryang?!

Jeez, why don't you tell the whole world about it?

The enemy believes that our target is Wekyo.

Shimazu will cross Noryang without suspicion...

And we will pounce on them from Noryang.

It's an excellent strategy!

Lt. Kwon.

We'we made contact with the local merchants and fishermen

as you ordered.

Lt. Yi.

You are me from now on. We must fool Konish completely.

Yes, sir!

We will trap the vessels that get through Noryang here at Kwanumpo.

Cholla Left Guards will split up the enemy fleet and the Cholla

Right Guards will ambush them at Noryang. The main camp and

Kyungsang Left Guards will finish off the enemy at Kwanumpo.

This will be a piece of cake.

If Konishi should get away, he will go to Mijo.

Construct a signal station on the Southern Sea Island.

The enemy may baffle our expectations and take the

long way through Mijo.

You have my confidence.

The Sea Battle of Noryang, the last battle of the 7 year war,

was set in motion. Konishi Yukinaga in Wekyo Soon-chun

had bribed the Ming Navy and succeeded in requesting aid

from the nearby Japanese forces in the southern sea.

Shimazu's fleet gathered at Juk-ryang to prepare for the final battle.

Yi Soon-shin and in Lin's Cho-ming naval alliance force

needed an effective plan to hold them back.

Shimazu's auxiliaries had two ways to get to Wekyo:

the quick way through Noryang and the roundabout way through Mijo.

Yi Soon-shin chose Noryang.

There was only one way to destroy the enemy fleet three times the

size of the allies, and that was to lure them into a narrow channel

through Noryang, trap them at Kwanumpo, and cut off their retreat route.

What?! He has locked up the royal emissary?!

He might as well have locked up the King!

He draws his sword against me!

That's right, You Majesty. This is cleary high treason!

What are you waiting for?

Dispatch a lawman and arrest Yi Soon-shin at once!

Yes, Your Majesty.

How dare he... How dare he!

Stop!

Punish me instead, Your Majesty!

Hasn't Yi Soon-shin suffered enough?

Are you defending a traitor?

Your Majesty, the true traitor who ruined the

regime is among us right now.

Who are you referring to?

Do you deny it?

Who turned this country into a country of political war?

Who stood helpless to save the people when the war broke out?

Who is trying to seize political control by destroying a warrior

that saved the country?

Watch your tongue! You are before the King!

Your Majesty, I, Yu Sung-ryong, have been with you for the last thirty years.

But those years have not been to serve you.

They were to serve your master, the people of Chosun!

But to this day, your people are suffering, and

only power-hungry officials are around you. How could I not lament?

How could we rebuild this country from the ashes of war,

and how could we create new world that people long for?

Your Majesty, I beg you to see far and high.

Cleanse your world with your heart and let it shine brightly!

"RESIGNATION"

What great loss...

Prime Minister Yu Sung-ryong and Supreme Naval Commander Yi Soon-shin

are the most faithful retainers of all ages.

However, I have the throne to protect...

Remove the Prime Minister from his post and arrest Yi Soon-shin at once!

Yes, Your Majesty!

Minister Yu, we must do something.

They have dispatched a royal constable!

This time it will not end with a dishonorable discharge.

You are the only man who can save the Admiral! We must find a way!

What can I do? His Majesty will not budge.

Besides, I've already left the royal court.

Then you could at least write to the Admiral and warn him.

Is there a horse faster than the royal constable's?

Then what will become of the Admiral?

Life and death is beyond our control...

But making sure that history depicts his loyalty truthfully,

that will be my task.

"PARDON FROM DEATH"

I spare you from death...

Your Majesty, did you say that you would spare me from death?

Is anyone out there?!

Your Majesty...

Is there any news? Any news from the Southern Sea?

Your Majesty, the Southern Sea is a distant place.

Rest comfortably.

Please take refuge on the mainland for a while.

Emissary, I had only one thing on my mind.

How do we contend with an enemy ten times our size.

How do I win this battle and protect my men as well.

That's all I could think about.

I do not fear charges of treason, and I do not fear execution for

defying the royal command.

My only fear is that my men will lose their confidence.

Because if they do, we cannot defeat the enemy.

That is why I caused you this discourtesy.

I know exactly what His Majesty wants from me.

Yes, I know it well. And I assure you I will deliver.

Admiral...

I have one request.

I place my men in your care.

After all, it's me alone that His Majesty wants.

Admiral...!

Uncle, it's Wan.

Come in.

I heard you were looking for me.

Send this to the headquarters in Gogeum-do.

What is it, Uncle?

They are diaries, a testimony of atrocities of the seven-year war.

I hope no one will ever make such a record again.

Uncle...

Perhaps I've worn it too long...

It's true!

The entire region of Gon-yang is astir preparing for Kwon Yul!

That means that the contents of that letter is true.

Reports from our spies in Jin Lin's camp support what is stated on that letter.

Yi Soon-shin will strike Wekyo tomorrow.

Then we will surprise him from the rear.

We must take the shortest route through Noryang.

Begin preparations!

Honey! Honey!

Honey! Honey!

My baby!

We'we decided to let you live!

You will be our oarsmen!

Row the oars on the ships hat will destroy Yi Soon-shin!

If we win the battle, your lives will be spared.

Get going! Quickly! Move! Move!

No way!

I am a proud soldier of Chosun! I will not row the enemy's ship!

Never!

Oh, is that so?

Do you trust me?

I trust you.

I trust you to kill me right now. Kill me!

Do you think I will make it that easy for you?

Bastard!

Do you what I am? I am no commander and I am no general.

I am just another archer that shoots arrows!

Look at me. Do you think you can beat me?

I took the assignment hoping to find a way to live,

but my fellow soldier are different!

You can't defeat us! Do you understand you wicked bastards?

Long Live Chosun! Long Live Chosun Navy!

Hail Admiral Yi Soon-shin!

All of us are sinners.

In the past 7 years, we've buried countless comrades of war at sea.

If we failed to put an end to this war, if we fail to deliver

retribution for the pain and suffering of our people,

we will never break the rein of our sins.

Today, we 16.000 soldiers of Chosun, go to war with faces of sinners.

But tomorrow, we will return triumphant with faces of champions!

Do not let one single vessel, one single enemy soldier return alive!

May fortune be with you.

Long Live Chosun! Long Live Chosun!

Long Live Chosun! Long Live Chosun!

Gods of heaven and earth, if I could defeat the enemy,

I would gladly fade away with the setting sun...

Sound the drums!

Can you see it? Can you see the spirits gathering to smell the revenge?

I can see them... each of those spirits passes me by...

like a double-edged sword.

They want your victory and our country's victory.

They will want the songs of fishermen covering the seas of Chosun again.

Yes... since the seas have been covered with their blood.

And they probably want mine too.

What?!

The ocean is covered by the enemy fleet! It's Yi Soon-shin!

The reinforcements, where are the reinforcements?

They are yet to arrive.

Send a signal fire.

No, set fire on the highest peak of highest mountain!

Yes, sir!

Yi Soon-shin...!

We must act quickly! Yi Soon-shin must have gone to Wekyo himself!

You mean he directed his entire fleet to Wekyo unwary of us?

This is uncharacteristic of Yi Soon-shin.

Do you question my father-in-law's judgment?

Can't you see his desperation?

He set a mountain on fire to request aid!

What is the quickest channel?

Noryang, sir.

Very well, Noryang it is.

- Wakizaka. - Yes, sir!

This sword was given to me by Minister Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Bring back Yi Soon-shin's head without fail and offer

it to the spirit of the bountiful minister.

If I fail to bring back Yi Soon-shin's head, I will offer mine!

19 November 1598

- The bit. - Aye, sir.

Admiral!

Fire toward the island!

Perhaps they...

They're trying to make sure there is no ambush.

All is quiet. No one is here.

Very well, pass the island at full speed!

Full speed ahead! Full speed ahead!

Admiral, they are speeding up.

Wait. They will slow down once the first vessel passes the island.

Now! Fire!

Fire!

Push forward!

Push forward!

Toss the dry grass!

Destroy the enemy! Fire!

Attack! Don't let a single enemy soldier survive the battle!

It's the enemy! We are under attack!

Where is our aid?

I don't know!

Very well, we will break through the enemy!

Commander, a frontal attack is not advised.

We are dealing with Yi Soon-shin!

Next spring, we can return next spring!

Remember, our goal is safe retreat.

We must send in a storming party and secure a retreat route.

Secure the retreat route.

Sir, a sea battle is in progress. What should we do?

Admiral, your fleet has already suffered a great loss.

This is Chosun's war, so instead of engaging in the front, please

stay behind and stop the enemy from escaping from Juk-do.

We are moving the fleet to Kwanumpo!

But Admiral!

Yi Soon-shin, he is the greatest warrior of Chosun.

And I, too, am the best warrior of Great Ming!

Tonight, I will share his fate!

Proceed to Kwanumpo!

Lure the energy to Kwanumpo!

What? Blocked in, you say?

Break through the enemy! Attack with full force!

No, there is a port ahead! It's land!

I don't believe this!

Unload heavy cargo and turn the fleet around!

Yes, sir!

We must take the bases with us no matter what!

Get out! Quickly! Get out!

No, this man is a skilled artisan. Let him live.

Gunners to the front! Fire!

Fire!

Kang-won!

Kang-won!

Sir...

Kang-won!

What are you waiting for? Wipe them out!

Lt. Suh!

Lt. Suh, hang in here!

Admiral...

My... father...

Son! My son!

Father...

Yes. I'm right here.

I don't have to be ashamed of myself now. Right, Father?

Of course not.

Father...

Yes, my son.

I'm going to rest now... I'm tired...

Rest in peace, my son...

Pleasant dreams...

Reunite with your wife and your child...

I will be back! I will be back next spring!

Yi Soon-shin, stay alive until I return!

Konishi that rat! He escaped alone?

General, it's unwise o continue this fight against Yi Soon-shin!

We must retreat!

The enemy mother ship is getting away!

Admiral, look! We won the battle!

We won the battle!

It's the Ming navy! Ming forces are coming!

Officer Song, hoist spearhead flag to the peak!

Admiral, but we are the other ship. How could we...

It is an order!

Fire!

The mother ship is taking the spearhead.

Charge!

Attack! Fire the cannons!

Board the enemy vessel!

Stay calm! Do not panic! Cut the ropes!

Fire! Wipe them out!

The Admiral...!

Steer to the left!

But we will collide with the mother ship!

Get next to the enemy ship! Now!

Pardon?

Get next to the enemy!

General Yi!

Board! Board the enemy vessel!

General Yi!

A rope! Save the general!

Admiral...

Admiral, you are in danger! You must fall back!

What are you waiting for? Lower the spearhead flag!

Attack! Wipe out the enemy!

Why, Admiral? Why did take the spearhead?

This is a fight I must finish with my own hands.

Admiral...

Hang tight, General! Don't die on me!

Do you know who I feared the most, Admiral?

It is you.

Do you know who I felt the most proud of? You.

I truly, truly wanted to be like you.

General Yi...

Forgive me, sir, for failing to see the battle to the end...

No. Deputy Commander of Garipo Yi Young-nam.

You were a fine soldier.

Admiral!

Admiral...

Admiral...

Take care of the general.

Sound the drums! Attack!

The enemy is before us!

Don't let them retreat! All ships forward!

The Admiral has taken off his armor! Admiral!

Oh no! That's suicide! Suicide!

Admiral! Protect yourself Put your armor back on!

Admiral... must you choose this path?

The sea will want my blood as well...

What radiant sun! How bright it is...

Go after them! Do not let the enemy retreat alive!

Yi Soon-shin has committed a crime of impiety against his King?

A great villain...

A great villain...

Your Majesty, did you say that you would spare me from death?